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Oriole   Listen
noun
Oriole  n.  (Zool.)
(a)
Any one of various species of Old World singing birds of the family Oriolidae. They are usually conspicuously colored with yellow and black. The European or golden oriole (Oriolus galbula, or Oriolus oriolus) has a very musical flutelike note.
(b)
In America, any one of several species of the genus Icterus, belonging to the family Icteridae. See Baltimore oriole, and Orchard oriole, under Orchard.
Crested oriole. (Zool.) See Cassican.






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"Oriole" Quotes from Famous Books



... had walked through the snow with his hat off; and William H. Prescott, with his eyesight restored, happened in from Mexico, a cactus in his buttonhole; and Audubon set a cage of birds on the table—Baltimore oriole, chaffinch, starling and bobolink doing their prettiest; and Christopher North thumped his gun down on the hall floor, and hung his 'sporting jacket' on the hat-rack, and shook the carpet brown with Highland heather. As Walter Scott came in his dog scampered in after him, ...
— Around The Tea-Table • T. De Witt Talmage

... Two watched yon oriole's pendent dome, That now is void, and dank with rain, And one,—oh, hope more frail than foam! The bird to his deserted ...
— The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 - Sorrow and Consolation • Various



Words linked to "Oriole" :   Icteridae, Oriolidae, Icterus galbula, Dolichonyx oryzivorus, orchard oriole, ricebird, northern oriole, meadowlark, family Oriolidae, American oriole, golden oriole, oscine bird, bobolink, New World oriole, Bullock's oriole, family Icteridae, Oriolus oriolus



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